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 clear. The other troops of the line present were -the royal artillery, the 3d dragoon guards, and Scots Greys. The volunteer troops were- the Glasgow troop of volunteer cavalry; the Peeblesshire and Selkirkshire yeomanry cavalry; the Fifeshire troop of lancers; the Fifeshire, Berwickshire. East Lothian. West Lothian, Roxburghshire, and Mid-Lothian yeomanry cavalry. About twelve o'clock, the whole corps, in number above 5000, were formed in a line, extending upwards of a mile in open order; the regulars, commanded by Colonel Holmes of the 3d drageon guards, and the volunteer corps by Sir James Baird, Bart. of Saughtonhall, bath officers of service and experience, and highly esteemed in the army, with Major-General Sir Thomas Bradford, and his staff, stationed in front, ready to receive his Majesty.

The approach of his Majesty was announced by hoisting the royal standard upon the quay at Portobello. About twenty minutes past one o'clock, his Majesty arrived on the field in a close carriage, drawn by four horses, accompanied by the Duke of Dorset, Loid Graves, Lord F. Conyngham, and Sir A. Barnard, and preceded by another carriage and four, containing more of his suit. The arrival of his Majesty was hailed by the loud acclamations of the assembled multitude; and a royal salute was immediately fired from a battery established on the pier, the colours lowered to the ground, and the pipers playing the Prince's Welcome.

Upon alighting from his carriage, the King was received by the Marquis of Lothian, Lord Lieutenant of the county, on foot, who afterwards